Oct 12, 2004 (Tuesday)

One week on and Anaphiel <anaphiel@earthlink.net> completes his latest piece of Marathon artwork and it's definitely worth the download. Tom Cruise, Marlon Brando or Christian Bale.

Tolkien references in Marathon? Well you be the judge.

Oct 5, 2004 (Tuesday)

More Marathon artwork in progress from Anaphiel <anaphiel@earthlink.net>. Great stuff.

Vid Boi <sippan@macnytt.com> continues his transcribing of the original level notes for levels 12 and 13 from the first Marathon game. Normally to see these you have to visit arrival.bungie.org and type in ARCHIVE in the top box and OUTLINE in the bottom box and then view the scanned images. However an attempt has been made on the Story forum to transcribe these notes without going through the hassle of viewing the scans of the original pages and trying to decipher the hand writing.

The full list of the levels transcribed so far are as follows:

Level #0 by Mark Levin <haveblue@mac.com>

Level #1 by Mark Levin <haveblue@mac.com>

Level #2 by Mark Levin <haveblue@mac.com>

Level #3 by Mark Levin <haveblue@mac.com>

Level #4 by Joe Mahma <joemahma7@home.com>

Level #5 by Joe Mahma <joemahma7@home.com>

Level #6 by Joe Mahma <joemahma7@home.com>

Level #7 by Joe Mahma <joemahma7@home.com>

Level #8 by Joe Mahma <joemahma7@home.com>

Level #9 by Vid Boi <sippan@macnytt.com>

Level #10 by Vid Boi <sippan@macnytt.com>

Level #11 by Vid Boi <sippan@macnytt.com>

Level #12 by Vid Boi <sippan@macnytt.com>

Level #13 by Vid Boi <sippan@macnytt.com> and another Level #13 by mnemesis <tvansinden@earthtech.com>

Posted out of sequence:

Level #26 by Alexander S7range <astrange@ithinksw.com>

Sept 28, 2004 (Tuesday)

jeff n <jeffnosanov@yahoo.com> writes:

I was idly reading about swords on www.wikipedia.org, the free online encyclopedia. Imagine my glee when I stumbled upon a mentionÊof the sword "Durandal"! I went from there to the article about Roland, which is here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland

and from there to a drawing of Roland holding the sword Durandal, which is here:

http://www.legends.dm.net/art/roland.jpg

Which I think is a great find.

www.wikipedia.com also has a page about the Marathon series, which is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_%28computer_game%29

drew <drew@friendpeople.org> writes concerning the mysterious binary string #101111011110111100001# is is a '7' displayed on the exit terminal of "Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!". See the The 10th military Mjolnir Mark IV cyborg section for details.

Sept 10, 2004 (Friday)

Aaron Davies <agd12@columbia.edu> writes:

This screenshot is taken from the episode "The Torment of Tantalus" of the TV show _Stargate SG-1_ (first series, eleventh episode). Look familiar?

Very.

Michael Shuster <amarok101@hotmail.com> sends in this pic of a Pfhor tattoo. Seems they are getting quite common.